Campaign Stop Ratings (Part Three)

3^rd: Rick Perry. He got third place because none of his stuff was bad but it wasn’t outstanding either. Rick stopped at the Blue Strawberry downtown; I have never been there so it was cool to see what it looked like. We had trouble finding a parking space downtown since it was in the middle of a work day so by the time we arrived the place was packed and we had to stand in the entry way in order to see him. Luckily it was warm outside (50’s) so the cold air didn’t bother me. He didn’t really give a speech, he mainly asked questions but it was pretty short only lasting about 20 minutes. The free stuff was okay, the usual buttons and pamphlets but he did have free shirts. Unfortunately, there were only larges left.

Worst: Newt Gingrich. I chose him last because I really didn’t enjoy anything he had to offer. Newt was 45 minutes late and like Mitt Romney he didn’t apologize which I thought was rude especially since it was lunch time and I was getting hungry. The location he chose was poor because it was this big machine garage with no heating. Since it was much bigger and had less people than Mitt Romney you could feel the coldness. My sister, dad and I had to all sit with our coats and gloves on because it was so cold. Once he did finally arrive he spoke for an hour and had questions afterwards. I felt his speech was the most boring because unlike the other candidates he didn’t throw a joke in or something to make it more uplifting. The only great thing that came out of this was that you could take pictures with an elephant. His wife writes children books, so they had someone dressed up as an elephant to promote her books. This I thought was very random and unexpected.

Unfortunately I was unable to see Michele Bachman because she appeared on a school night and I had too much homework. My sister and dad went though, and the only thing really they said was that she was very quick, only 5 minutes and she was done. I also didn’t see Jon Huntsman because he decided to campaign in New Hampshire even though their primary was held a week later than ours. He believes though that “in New Hampshire you pick presidents, in Iowa you pick corn”.

So to sum it all up, that is my opinion on how great their campaign stops went, from best to worst.